"The Zoo" in Hobey Hollow at (Sky Ranch), with pens for various animals that were being propagated in the Roosevelt Game Preserve.

ID: 743 ~ Source: Shawnee State Park and Forest Collection, Center for Public History, Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, Ohio. ~ Date: 13 March 1941

This file appears in: Roosevelt Game Preserve Headquarters and "the Zoo"

"The Zoo" in Hobey Hollow at (Sky Ranch), with pens for various animals that were being propagated in the Roosevelt Game Preserve.

Helen Hopkins Ohliger, the daughter of Preserve Manager Charles Arthur and Mable (Lewis) Hopkins, stands in the foreground, with the "Zoo" pens behind her.

This file appears in: Roosevelt Game Preserve Headquarters and "the Zoo"

Roosevelt Game Preserve Headquarters and "the Zoo"

By Andrew Feight, Ph.D.

The headquarters for Roosevelt Game Preserve and "Zoo," established in 1922, ought to be considered Ohio's first state-operated "nature center" in what is now Shawnee State Forest. Located up Harbor Fork of Turkey Creek in…